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Tarzan’s Savage Fury ** (1952, Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 8043

Director Cy Endfield’s 1952 Tarzan’s Savage Fury is the sixteenth in the series, and stars Lex Barker as Tarzan in his fourth outing following Tarzan’s Magic Fountain (1949), Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) and […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

Tarzan’s Peril ** (1951, Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8042

Director Byron Haskin and Phil Brandon’s 1951 Tarzan’s Peril stars the 6’4″ blond, virile Lex Barker as the vine-swinging hero in this busy and amusing RKO jungle action adventure, whose biggest peril is the daft […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

A Lady without Passport ** (1950, Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8,041

Joseph H Lewis’s 1950 MGM black and white thriller film A Lady without Passport starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak is a heady brew, mixing romantic adventure, film noir and crime drama. Director Joseph H […]

Jan, 21

Nurse Betty **** (2000, Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Aaron Eckhart) – Classic Movie Review 8040

Director Neil LaBute’s 2000 comedy Nurse Betty stars Renée Zellweger, who is marvellous as the cheery but strange and dogged Kansas City waitress Betty, who goes off in search of her smug soap-opera idol Dr David Ravell […]

Jan, 21

King’s Rhapsody ** (1955, Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8039

Ivor Novello’s last operetta King’s Rhapsody (1950) concerns an exiled Ruritarian king, Richard of Laurentia (a sadly on-the-skids Errol Flynn), forsaking true love with commoner Marta Karillos (Anna Neagle, too old for this at the […]

Jan, 20

The Lady with a Lamp *** (1951, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young) – Classic Movie Review 8038

The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]

Jan, 20

Nurse Edith Cavell ***(1939, Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, Zasu Pitts, H B Warner, Alan Marshal) -Classic Movie Review 8037

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s moving 1939 biographical drama Nurse Edith Cavell stars Anna Neagle in one of her most famous roles as Edith Cavell, the gallant, dedicated English nurse who so loyally and bravely served the allied troops […]

Jan, 20

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